Rangrasiya
Rangrasiya follows a young village girl Parvati (Sanaya Irani) and a Bharatiya Suraksha Dal officer Rudra (Ashish Sharma) in an edgy love story ignited by intense hatred and fuelled by circumstances that brings Paro and Rudra together. The show has been shot extensively across arid terrains and rann of Jaisalmer and dunes of Jodhpur. Set in Birpur, it’s a small village that witnesses a grand wedding celebration between borders once every year.
One such wedding is that of Paro that is gate crashed by the BSD, led by Rudra to investigate the illegal smuggling of arms. This incident shatters Paro’s life leading to an unexpected turn of events. The show will portray Rudra and Paro’s strong, passionate and aggressive love story. Rangrasiya is said to be based on the famous English drama “Othello” composed by William Shakespeare and will be visually very appealing.[
Aired on 30th December 2013. Paro’s parents are killed in an attack caused by BSD officers. A young Paro is chasing a butterfly innocently when she finds her parent’s bodies being burned. Creating her fear of fire and BSD. Rudra Pratap Ranawat’s mother leaves him and his father for another man depressing Rudra. Rudra becomes a rebel and his father and him soon move districts.
On the journey Rudra meets Paro where Paro sees him upset and hands her favourite doll over to him. 15 years later Paro is on the desert and see’s a hurt camel. She runs to it’s aid and sends her friend to get some water. She sees a man on horse and calls out to him, he get’s off the horse and takes his shawl off revealing a gun. As he reaches her, in the shape of a circle he pours kerosene around her and lights fire
Aired on 31st December 2013. Paro wakes up and realises it was a dream. She prays to the God talking about how she could forget those (BSD) who killed her parents. She holds on to her rudrash and Rudra is shown wearing a similar one to her. Rudra leaves the head quarters to travel somewhere. Paro’s friends tease her saying she might be getting married soon. Since every year a girl is chosen by a snake to get married. Meanwhile, Thakur Tejawat threatens to kill a man after he reports illegal happenings to BSD. Paro is chosen to get married.
Parvati (Paro): Portrayed by Sanaya Irani, Paro has been brought up in a village wherein every second house has a story to mourn, and a single agenda in mind – hate the BSD. Paro lost her parents in an operation conducted by security forces but somewhere even after a tragic past, she looks up to life and has a dream that one day there will be someone to love her. Contrary to Rudra, for Paro, love is hope, beauty is extreme and duty is vengeance.
Rudra: Portrayed by Ashish Sharma, Rudra is a Bharatiya Suraksha Dal officer for whom his duty is his religion. He carries an emotional baggage from past when his mother abandoned him and his father at the age of 12. His faith on relationship and women in general got shaken at a very young age which resulted into a man with no emotions or even love for himself. His mother abandoned his father and got married to someone else because she was a beautiful lady and his father was a not so good looking man. For Rudra, love is need-based, beauty is deceit, and work is duty.